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Jazz album reviews with CHRIS SEARLE: July 5, 2023
Reviews of Mark Sanders & Emil Karlsen, Leap Day Trio and the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Mark Sanders/Emil Karlsen
MUTED LANGUAGE
Bead Records
★★★★
TWO drummers drumming in free conversations of percussive beauty and virtuosity: that’s the truth of Muted Language, featuring the veteran south London-born Mark Sanders, and the young Norwegian, a fast learner in his craft, Emil Karlsen.
So many surfaces struck, rubbed, coaxed, massaged and stroked — of wood, leather, plastics and a host of metals from cymbals, gongs, dishes — a world of sounds and nature’s numb exteriors given new life and hope in the artistry of two exploring humans.
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